The following text is a new translation of a personal selection by Waldemar Zimbelmann of poems by Ernst Herbeck which have been rearranged. The translation reproduces the grammatical, syntactic and orthographic peculiarities of the original, while maintaining its rhymes and rhetorical figures.

Autumn is and restores to human beings the opportunity for cand. thought.

Autumn is study, gratitude to Mother Earth.

Speechlessness comes from a lot studying at school. It affects however

Another pupil.

Some students are ace pupils. The schoolmaster is delighted with them. They

Get a top grade.

Success ws not long in coming. Artists are baked like bread rolls. Price: 6p. Alexander. Baker. END.-.-.-

Now it is autumn

Strange pre-history the summer that

We are having. Well, and the autumn com-

Es thereafter.

Human beings are in the act of

Turning away from Nature. They con-

Trol the chaos. But

The ape does not.

During the day the telephone rang

And I already knew

The text thereto.

Rings, went the telephone and

From reverie

I had to flee

The last is the beginning for poets

He says: it is the best. End, or most recently means: the last (best)

Life ths is a rage of yours ant

It is a daft brute and we art

Evil

On inherit he I wrote and

Will hElp you

The greater the suffering the greater the poet The harder the work The deeper the sense

The circle is round The ellipse is oval The circle is spherical The human is jovial

The egg is round, the Earth is weeping The sun is laughing, the skies are rumbling.

The Red colour The Yellow colour The darkgreen The skies ELLENO

The patent-tender The tiny pedestal, the ship. The rainbow The sea The meadow leaves

The water The leaf scar The keyy (R)>r.< The lock+the lock.

I – you, my friend My dear fellow countrymen. Yu don’t need to raise an axe anymore.

The country is snuffing it and you, my friend. This truth is to stupid, and I’m going. – – –

To the gal: >TO KI55 HER.<

Translation: Richard Humphrey